The Home Office: Right as Rain?

The Home Office in the last two years has been run chiefly by the Conservative dogma of repeating things until they become true.

As one of the most important offices, the Home Office manages security, order and immigration, fundamental parts of a civil society. These are also highly contentious issues between a left/right coalition, as we currently have in the UK, so any issues which arise are likely to spark a large amount of media interest.

In the last week, as chaos develops at British airports, The Home Office has sought to dictate the reason for such problems is rain. That's right; quintessentially British rain is the fundamental problem resulting in not enough staff, excessive elaborate and futile security checks and lengthy delays at international airports.

Perhaps rain is also the reason for Theresa May's inability to fact check her own speeches.

The problem is that this host of contrived excuses are a mask for what appears to be a slowly unravelling senior government department. The reality of so many errors, each on it's own seemingly innocuous, have severe implications about the safety and security of the UK.

All of a sudden, the man walking on the street may be searched without due cause, extradited to the US or detained without charge. As with all civil liberty issues, the issue is often not the justification for introduction, rather, the people that are handling it. And if the people that are handling it are blaming their own mistakes on rain, there are some serious problems.